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Could anyone help me with writing the commons validate....pluggable
validator, with snippets of code to b written and changes to b made...em
using spring framework
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From: C. Grobmeier [mailto:grobmeier@possessed.de]
Sent: Friday, April 21, 2006 7:16 AM
To: Jakarta Commons Developers List
Subject: Re: Contributing Code
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Hi,
> I am interested in contributing code to commons. I wrote a
> ModifiableZip class, that basically implements all the methods on
> ZipFile, but provides new methods for adding, removing and modifying
> entries in an existing zip file.
> The basics work, but it is still a bit rough around the edges. I need
> to do a bit more work on
> 1) Getting the proper apis
> 2) Changing package names + general refactoring
> 3) Making sure there is less duplication between what I have and
> what is implemented in compress (there are common elements in
> org.apache.commons.compress.ZipOutputStream that I feel we could
share)
> 4) Filling in some of the smaller bits like file attributes, etc.
> 5) There are some other known bugs
>
> I thought it made sense to contribute this now, and apply patches,
since
> I figured this could be useful to the VFS folks, and thought it might
be
> able to go into Compress, in which case being able to get feedback and
> requirements from the communities earlier (rather than later) will be
> useful.
>
this is great. I am doing work on compress at the moment, if you like i
send you the current code via email (i am not a comitter too). I will
check out your code and will try to put it into my current
implementation. It would be great if we could do this stuff together.
> The zip file is
> http://sandbox.sourcelabs.com/willpugh/myzip_contribution.zip
>
> I'm not an Apache committer. Should this be going through the
incubator
> first?
IMHO not- it's just a enhancement to a allready incubatet codebase.
But i am not an expert on this stuff, so somebody please correct me if i
am writing bullshit.
Cheers,
Chris.
> Thanks,
> --Will
>
>
>
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